Planning ahead for your Avis Preferred points
Avis Budget Group points cannot be transferred and have no beneficiary option — here is what you can do while the account is active
Avis Budget Group has a transfer process for Avis Preferred points after the account holder dies. Lifetime planning complements this by giving the account holder direct control over points while alive.
How to protect your Avis Preferred points
5 lifetime planning steps for your Avis Preferred points:
- •Points are valid for only sixty (60) months from when they were earned (Section 4.a)
- •Points are forfeited without notice if the account becomes Inactive — no eligible rental and no points earned or redeemed during a 12-month period (Section 4.a)
- •Points have no cash value and are forfeited on termination of membership for any reason (Section 5.e)
Family sharing
The Avis Preferred Loyalty Program Terms and Conditions publish no routine lifetime point transfer, pooling, or family-sharing feature. Section 4.f states that points and member benefits "may not be sold, bartered or transferred (other than by Avis or its agents)," and the only member-to-member point transfers the terms describe are the two discretionary exceptions Avis may allow on death (Section 4.g) and on an adjudicated divorce settlement (Section 4.h). During life, the way to move value to family is to redeem points for reward rental days and accessories and use those rentals for the family. Preferred status and tier benefits are tied to the individual membership and do not transfer.
Should you save your passwords for your family?
Some people store account passwords so a family member can sign in later. The practice has three practical limits:
- Two-factor authentication often blocks it. Most accounts require a second factor — a code sent to a phone, an authenticator app, a passkey, or a physical key. A saved password alone frequently does not grant access, and the recovery codes that would are easy to lose or let go stale.
- It usually conflicts with the platform's terms. Most operators prohibit account sharing and signing in as another person, including after a death. Stored credentials are not the operator's recognized access path, and using them can violate the terms of service.
- Operators provide other paths. Where an operator offers a designation tool — Apple's Legacy Contact, Google's Inactive Account Manager, a beneficiary designation — that mechanism grants access the operator recognizes. A password manager's own emergency-access or legacy feature passes credentials through a controlled process. Digital assets named in a will or trust give a fiduciary authority under each state's Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA).
Frequently asked questions
No. Avis Preferred supports no beneficiary designation. Points are not the member's property under Section 5.e and, under Section 4.f, points and member benefits "may not be sold, bartered or transferred (other than by Avis or its agents)." The two exceptions in the terms are the discretionary transfers Avis may allow on death (Section 4.g) and on an adjudicated divorce settlement (Section 4.h).
Record the Avis Preferred account number and the email address on the account in the estate file so the executor can identify the account; account passwords are not needed, because the death transfer runs on documentation Avis requests. Enroll the intended family member or friend in Avis Preferred and keep that membership active, since Section 4.g reaches only an active member. Because the terms publish no routine lifetime transfer feature and the post-death transfer is discretionary, redeeming points for reward rental days during life is the path that does not depend on Avis exercising discretion later, and it also keeps the 60-month expiration and the 12-month inactivity forfeiture from taking the balance.
An inventory listing the Avis Preferred account lets a fiduciary identify it and act on it through the operator's official channels.
Avis Preferred does not support beneficiary designations. Unlike financial accounts, there is no way to name a beneficiary on this type of account.
Sources
Data sourced from Avis Budget Group primary sources (6 pages reviewed). How we research.
